I used to do this with the middle school kids in shop class. HOwever we used old peanut butter jars. I let one kid bring in a mayo glass jar and it broke. After that it was all peanut butter plastic jars. Good job. Kids loved them when I was doing them too.
Hey Raymond, I have been trying to ticker with some different ideas on the gumball holder of mine own but just cant nail couple of things down, hoping you could help me. How to do you make the holder indent like that without spending to much time trying to sand it just right. Any help would be much appreciated.
By the way you Machine looks great,
Ryan
Ryanf, What I did was I took a key that my teacher made of that half circle shape and put it directly to the edge of the board then traced it. Once I was done I used the band saw to cut out the shape and then used a disc sander to smooth out and round the edge. Once I was done with that I took a quarter and placed it in the center of the holder and traced around the edge of the quarter. Once done I used a gouge to gouge out the round hole in the center staying in the lines I drew and gouged out about half of the boards thickness. Then I took some 80, 120, and 220 sand paper and sanded it out till it was smooth. And I used a mortise and tenon for it to hang on the side. Hope this helps.